Place:Sacombe, Hertfordshire, England

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Until at least 1974 Sacombe was a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire District of Hertfordshire, England. It is now a part of Little Munden parish. At the 2001 UK census it had a population of 165. Sacombe is located about 4 miles N N W of Ware; other nearby settlements include Dane End (redirected to Little Munden) and Sacombe Green (redirected here).

Research Tips

• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
• Hertfordshire Family History Society
• Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• GENUKI outlines information for genealogists for the county. It is also a doorway to pages covering individual parishes.
• Joiner's Marriage Index is available for Hertfordshire on GENUKI. Individual parishes are covered separately.
• Wikimedia Commons has a variety of maps of Hertfordshire, and parts of Hertfordshire, past and present.
• A Vision of Britain through Time is a website produced by the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. It outlines all parishes as they were in the 19th century.
• The FamilySearch Wiki lists its collections of church records and vital records along with those provided by other organizations, both commercial and voluntary.
• The commercial website FindMyPast also has a collection of wills and newspaper transcriptions, as well as the "1939 Register" (an equivalent to the census gathered at the beginning of World War 2).
• The hundred of Broadwater: Introduction and map as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 3, pp 52-53
• The parish of Sacombe ibid, volume 3, pp 136-139